Talitha Espiritu is a
Filipino
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author and academic known for her work on cinema during the
Marcos dictatorship.
Espiritu teaches in the Film and New Media Studies program at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
Early life and education
Espiritu was born in Manila, Philippines to fashion designer
Christian Espiritu, who served as Imelda Marcos's chief couturier and Gliceria Limcaoco, a former private school teacher. She received her B.A. in Communication Arts from the
Ateneo de Manila University
, mottoeng = Light in the Lord
, type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution
, established = December 10, 1859
, religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic ( Jesuits)
, academic ...
, her first M.A. from The John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Program in Humanities and Social Thought and her Ph.D. in
Cinema Studies
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...
both from
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
. Before pursuing a career in the academe she was an art writer covering the Manila art scene from 1992-1995.
''Passionate Revolutions''
''Passionate Revolutions'' is the first book to examine how aesthetics and messaging based on sentimental narratives helped secure the dictatorship of
Ferdinand Marcos and sustained the popular struggles that toppled it, culminating in the EDSA “people power” of 1986. According to Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio, ''Passionate Revolutions'' "expands the critical discussion of dictatorships in general and Marcos’s in particular by placing Filipino popular media and the regime’s public culture in dialogue."
Published works
* ''Passionate Revolutions: The Media and The Rise And Fall Of The Marcos Regime.'' Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press
hio University Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 132 2017, 276 pp.
*“The Marcos Romance and the Cultural Center of the Philippines: The Melodrama of a Therapeutic Cultural Policy,” Journal of Narrative Theory 45 no. 1 (Fall 2015).
*“Performing Native Identities: Human Displays and Indigenous Activism in Marcos’ Philippines,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture, edited by Toby Miller, 417-425. London and New York: Routledge. 2015.
*“Native Subjects on Display: Reviving the Colonial Expositions in Marcos’ Philippines,” Social Identities 18 no. 6 (Fall 2012): 729-744.
*“Multiculturalism, Dictatorship and Cinema Vanguards: Philippine and Brazilian Analogies,” in Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media, edited by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, 279-298. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2003.
*“National Allegory, Modernization and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime,” in John Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons eds. Popular Culture in Asia: Memory, City, Celebrity(Forthcoming from Palgrave, 2013).
See also
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Benedict Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book '' Imagined Communities'', which e ...
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Resil Mojares
Resil Buagas Mojares (born September 4, 1943) is a Filipino historian and critic of Philippine literature best known as for his books on Philippine history. He is acclaimed by various writers and critics as the ''Visayan Titan of Letters'', due t ...
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Caroline Hau
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Neferti Tadiar
Neferti X. M. Tadiar is a Filipino scholar and critical theorist. She is a professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, chair of the Barnard department of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, and director of the Co ...
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Reynaldo Ileto
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Zeus A. Salazar
References
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New York University alumni
Filipino academics
Filipino women academics
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people